Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term
France
specialized in IP (patents)
Native in: French 
Works in: English to French, French to English
volaille
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Morning everyone,
I am trying to translate the word "volaille" into English. Shouldn't be too hard right? but I have a doubt... "poultry" is appropriate when talking about several animals, or the meat.
But I need to translate the word "volaille" into the singular form, for example "le poids de la volaille". And in this case, I do not know if "the weight of the poultry" is ok, or even if this conveys the idea that it is the weight of a single animal, which is of importance for my translation.
Please help me!
Thank you in advance :-)
Caroline
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Bonjour à tous,
Je cherche à traduire le mot "volaille" en anglais. Jusque là, rien de bien compliqué me direz-vous, mais j'ai un doute... "poultry" est bien adapté lorsque l'on parle de plusieurs volailles, ou bien de la volaille (singulier) en tant que viande, par exemple "j'ai acheté de la volaille".
Or, j'ai besoin de traduire le mot "volaille" au singulier, par exemple "le poids de la volaille". Et dans ce cas, je ne sais si "the weight of the poultry" se dit, ni même si cela véhicule bien l'idée qu'il s'agit du poids d'une seule volaille, ce qui est particulièrement important pour ma traduction.
Es-ce quelqu'un peut m'éclairer ?
Je vous remercie par avance pour vos bons conseils :-)
Caroline
| 4 +5 | bird/fowl |
Nesrine Echroudi
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Rebecca Davis
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Mar 22, 2018 09:50: writeaway changed "Field" from "Law/Patents" to "Other"
Mar 24, 2018 21:46: Yolanda Broad changed "Level" from "PRO" to "Non-PRO"
Non-PRO (3): Rachel Fell, abe(L)solano, Yolanda Broad
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Proposed translations
Tunisia
High Quality translation
Native in: Arabic (Variants: Egyptian, Tunisian) 
, French
Works in: English to French, English to Arabic, French to Arabic, and 6 more.
bird/fowl
Fowl = a gallinaceous bird kept for its eggs and flesh; a domestic cock or hen = poultry = domestic fowl / the flesh of domesticated birds as food; poultry.
United Kingdom
Qualified financial & legal translator
Native in: English
Works in: French to English, Latin to English, English
bird
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Tony M
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sporran
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